From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 15 11:17:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29333 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:17:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA29315 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:17:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0zIzdu-0002fP-00; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:15:58 -0700 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:15:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Ruslan Ermilov cc: Derek Flowers , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New daily output In-Reply-To: <19980915154039.B13421@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > I really like the added feature, but am wondering how to clear message > > above? It has been placed in the output of /etc/daily now for a week. I > > appreciate the fact that /etc/daily now displays this, but I do not think > > it is necessary to have it display the same message over and over again. > > > > You should rotate your /var/log/messages daily. > RTFM newsyslog(8), then edit your /etc/newsyslog.conf accordingly. That isn't a very good idea. newsyslog will rotate file on the aniversary of its creation, but /etc/daily runs at a fixed time every day. This means that you almost certain miss processing some logs. newsyslog is flawed. > Best regards, > -- > Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the > ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank > +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message